As much as I loved the image of Evil Amy slowly twisting the life-blood from Laurie like he was an old dishrag, I suppose they would have had to diverge from the book too much to make that happen. Although who knows! A lot of things can be accomplished just with camera angles and saying the lines with particular emphasis. They should have had the courage of their convictions and continued down this Evil Amy path.
I think "Jo is not into guys" is a valid reading of the text but also a difficult one for a movie to embrace if it also wants to keep the canonical ending, because she does marry a guy at the end and... well, I guess someone could try to sell it as a marriage of "we want to start a school together! We are such good platonic life partners." But otherwise it would be kind of a bummer ending.
You are 100% right and they did cut most of the Meg stuff while keeping "the jelly won't gel" - and adding in a childbirth scene, because why not, I guess? But this is like the one time in the entire episode where Marmee gets to be steady and forthright, - in short, is actually in character - so I can't complain too much.
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I think "Jo is not into guys" is a valid reading of the text but also a difficult one for a movie to embrace if it also wants to keep the canonical ending, because she does marry a guy at the end and... well, I guess someone could try to sell it as a marriage of "we want to start a school together! We are such good platonic life partners." But otherwise it would be kind of a bummer ending.
You are 100% right and they did cut most of the Meg stuff while keeping "the jelly won't gel" - and adding in a childbirth scene, because why not, I guess? But this is like the one time in the entire episode where Marmee gets to be steady and forthright, - in short, is actually in character - so I can't complain too much.